In the article, “Almost Half Of Ransomware Attacks Now Involve Data Exfiltration And Extortion,” KnowBe4 and CyberWire reported that for the third quarter of 2020 nearly half of ransomware attacks...
Members of the hacking group “APT41” were charged by the U.S. Department of Justice for hacking more than 100 victims globally with one of its members running AV vendor...
Phishing is the fraudulent attempt to obtain your sensitive information or data, such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details. Simply, by disguising oneself as a trustworthy entity in...
Will free anti-virus solutions protect you against common, known computer viruses? Perhaps the answer is yes. However, they may leave you vulnerable to yet-unknown threats. If you choose Windows Defender as...
What is a social engineering attack? It is a way of getting your credentials, access to your systems and your data. It is a combination of three main flaws...
PHISHING Phishing does not refer to the peaceful act of standing by a river tossing a baited hook into the water and hoping for dinner. Phishing does refer to...
Every day I read news stories about the exploits of cyber criminals and how they broke this or that. Every day I shake my head at how apparently easy...
This week, the news was bad. I do not mean the news headlines leading the television broadcasts. I mean the news that goes by, unheralded and only discussed in...
A zero-day vulnerability is a flaw in software that the vendor has yet to patch. This leaves the windows wide open for a cyber-criminal to exploit it. The cyber-criminal...
Is Cloud Security a Risk? 60% of the organizations out there don’t understand the shared responsibility when it comes to how or who secures workloads in the cloud. Creating...